Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter competition will be interrupted after three weeks of work in December by the Christmas recess. It is for this reason as well as for the shorter term of its duration, the easiest of the three try-outs for the CRIMSON allotted each class. A minimum of time and effort is required from candidates during the examination period...
This route besides being 12 miles shorter than the Providence, New London road, and eight miles less than by Worcester and Springfield, avoids the heavy through traffic on the two main routes, and runs through no large cities, such as Worcester or Providence. The road is well paved throughout, and has sufficiently easy curves to allow for fast traveling almost the whole...
Fall rowing this year occupied a shorter time than usual. Starting the first week in October, some ten or 11 crews practiced on the Charles five days a week until the final three mile race on October 31. The same policy of mingling University squad men and class crew, inaugurated by Coach E. J. Brown '96 in the fall of 1926, prevailed; the only differentiation made being that of weight. The heavy men, boated into five eights worked out under Coach Brown himself; while the 150-pound squad was in charge of F. R. Sullivan...
...British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist...
...Freshman team is also racing against the New Hampshire University Freshmen at 4 o'clock over the shorter course at Soldiers Field. The team is as follows: B. E. Estes '32, G. M. Barrie '32, M.P. Hallowell '32, J. W. Forbes '32, R. A. Murphy '32, J. H. Pearson '32 W. G. Coogan '32, R. W. Seaver '32, E. T. Floathe...